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Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you place an order for freeze-dried goodies? In this unique POV video, I'm flipping the script on traditional unboxing videos to show you exactly how I prepare online orders for my freeze-drying business.
You'll see firsthand how I carefully package delicate products like freeze-dried goods, to ensure they arrive at my customers' doorstep in perfect condition. I'll share some insider tips on our quality control measures and reveal the care that goes into each package. Whether you are a fellow entrepreneur or just someone fascinated by the freeze-drying process, this video offers a rare look into online order fulfillment for specialty food businesses.
This video will most certainly give you an idea of what is required to run a freeze-drying business but it will also give you more clarity on how to make it profitable through my ROI spreadsheet tutorial. Download it for FREE -https://freezedriedbusiness.com/spreadsheet
Other videos mentioned in this video:
- Common Questions about Packaging - https://youtu.be/wr4SWv0FkvA
- Oxygen Absorbers & Label Requirements - https://youtu.be/5mb0i8yDDx0
- Stamping - https://youtu.be/E3etV0UX2-w
- Can You Make Money with Freeze Dried Candy - https://youtu.be/KVZbdzLWILc
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- JADEN Thermal Printer - https://amzn.to/3rHd2JT
- ROLLO Thermal Printer - https://amzn.to/3Qg9p6Y
- MUNBYN Thermal Printer - https://amzn.to/3tyg6sf
- BROTHER MFC Printer - https://amzn.to/3tw2DkF
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if you want to earn money using your
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freeze dryer or you have a business
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using your freeze dryer and you just
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want to know how do I start shipping my
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product to customers to earn that
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additional money well in this video I'm
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going to share with you my point of view
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perspective from owning a freeze drying
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business in Idaho my company's called
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freeze dry Depot and I've been running
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it for over four years one of the things
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I had to quickly learn was how do I ship
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this delicate type of product like
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freeze-dried ice cream freeze-dried
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candy freeze-dried fruit because when
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you dry it in the freeze dryer it
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becomes really really delicate wondering
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kind of what type of boxes to use to
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ship your product as well as any packing
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material like crinkle paper or peanuts
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things like that to keep this product
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from crushing is vital to your business
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so that you keep having returning
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customers and people give you good
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reviews now today we're going to talk
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about mainly the shipping and
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fulfillment side of your freeze dried
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product because now that you actually
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have packaged it up just like I have
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with this freeze-dried ice cream now
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it's time to ship it to someone that you
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may not even know and that's a good
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thing right because you're expanding
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your customers you're probably shipping
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out of state speaking of that if you're
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wanting to ship instate most of the time
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that's covered under a commercial
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kitchen license that you can get through
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your state or your county something like
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that I've got plenty of videos that talk
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about that how it's ran in Idaho but
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it's very different in different states
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if you want to sell Interstate meaning
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you want to sell outside of the state
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that you're currently processing your
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product then you're going to want to
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look at more of an FDA processing
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facility sometimes commercial kitchen
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laws are applicable to be able to sell
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out of state you just want to check with
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your state laws to see if you can ship
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food products from a commercial kitchen
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or if you have to have some type of FDA
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facility okay so how do you get started
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with selling online well there's a lot
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of different Market places nowadays to
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sell your product when I started my
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business in 2020 I went with Etsy
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because that's where I found most of the
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freeze-dried product existing on sale
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and in fact in 2020 when I started my
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business there was only 10 stop selling
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freeze-dried products now I can't even
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believe how many different pages and
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listings there are for freeze-dried
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products but don't let that discourage
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you that just tells you that a lot of
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people are selling products and I'm
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still getting orders today from Etsy in
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fact I've got six orders today three
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from Etsy and three from my website that
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I use Shopify to do all that and if
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you're not familiar with all these
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different platforms they make it really
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easy to be able to ship your product
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they process the order they give you
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ways to put photos of your product they
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give you all the different types of
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shipping rates so you really don't have
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to do a whole lot of calculations with
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that there are a lot of different
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shipping platforms to go through you can
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go through pirate ship you can go
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through Shopify Shopify has a discounted
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rate for the Post Office for FedEx for
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ups and you can also go through some
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other different channels needless to say
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there's a lot of platforms to go through
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to sell your product choose one that's
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most comfortable that you know so if you
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really know Facebook and you really know
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Instagram and that's where you are so
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you can kind of look at different
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accounts that are already selling on
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there then go with those and start
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learning how the process of purchasing a
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product goes and that way you can know
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how to sell on that platform I'm going
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to keep this a little bit more raw
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footage just so I don't have to do a
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whole lot of editing just so I can show
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you what I do for some of these
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packaging and fulfillment on my side of
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the business and one of the things that
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makes it really easy for me because I
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also have my nephews that help me do
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fulfillment is I print off these packing
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sheets now these packing sheets you can
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do on Etsy you can also do it through
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Shopify Shopify is the e-commerce sort
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that I have through my website and so
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when you print off a packing sheet it
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actually gives you what types of
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products came with the order the packing
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slip for Etsy looks very similar to the
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one here it just doesn't include any
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photos but it does include the
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description so I know that this one is
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freeze-dried cookies and cream ice cream
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so that's what I know what to pack into
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the box now you don't have to do this
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this is just what I do I'm still a small
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business and when you're starting you're
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still going to be that too there's a lot
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larger freeze drying businesses than me
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but this will give you an idea of what a
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small business is doing and where you
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can start out as well when I started
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this business I wanted to have the right
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types of uh boxes and one of the things
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that was important for me was that I
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didn't want to package it in some of
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those uh those plastic envelopes that
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has some bubble wrap because I've worked
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for UPS and FedEx in the past back in
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college and I knew what I was doing at
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3:30 in the morning throwing them on the
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FedEx trucks and UPS trucks and so I
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wanted to have something more durable
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like boxes does this box cost more than
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that yes it does this is about a dollar
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a box 80 cents a box it just depends on
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how many boxes I'm willing to buy in
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bulk I buy these from Uline and you can
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also go to maybe your local Container
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Store your local boxing store and see if
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they have returned boxes they can't sell
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anymore new maybe you can find them a
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little bit cheaper this is expensive but
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I also charge a
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fulfillment uh and handling fee on all
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my online orders so I sell my
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freeze-dried ice cream for $12 a bag but
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I also add $150 to the order on top of
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the shipping because I want to cover my
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box cost as well as some of the packing
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material so free shipping free shipping
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and handling that's something that you
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see a lot of you get to control what you
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want to do for me I you know I just pass
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that along to the customer because for
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me I just can't incur those those costs
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as a small business I you know if I had
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them more in bulk then maybe I could if
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you're watching this for the first time
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and you're interested in freeze drying I
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want to welcome you and encourage you to
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subscribe to this channel because you'll
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be notified of all different types of
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and industry news about the freeze
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drying industry now as you can see here
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I've got my unfolded boxes and then the
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finished folded box now you don't have
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to have a folded box you can have more
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of a a box that is you know when when
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you normally you fold it you put the
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tape around it or you can have more of a
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multi-fold type of box this type of box
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right here I literally just fold in I
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had to learn how to do this
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quickly and then you make the box and
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then it folds down like this and then
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creates the lid and voila you've got
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your box now when you're starting your
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business you're going to have to figure
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out how many packages you can fit in one
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of these boxes I just had to buy these
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boxes off of Uline I had to figure out
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okay I've got these bags that I fill um
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you know freeze-dried Skittles fit
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differently in here these are kind of
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more bulk so it has a little bit larger
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volume so this size box can fit up to
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two then when I have three to five
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products purchased off my website or
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Etsy I have another box and then from
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six to all the way to 10 different bags
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of product I have another box as well
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now as a business owner you get to
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choose how you want to fulfill and
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purchase these types of boxes I'm just
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sharing you what's kind of worked for me
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for the past four years let's go through
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fulfillment of two of my six orders so
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you can kind of see what I'm doing to
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get it out the door to the post office
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today so what I'm going to look for is
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i' I know I've got an order for two
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cookies and cream ice cream here and
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then also they wanted strawberries I'm
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going to put that order right here the
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packing slip that was from Etsy and then
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I've got this one right here and he
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wanted some freeze-dried cookies and
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cream ice cream so we're already going
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to use this box now I stamp I try to
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stamp my boxes to create some branding
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because when this arrives to the
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customer I want them to know hey I did
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order from freeze dry Depot and here's
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the order so we're going to put that bag
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in here and now we're going to close it
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up try to show you I'm going to close it
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up like this and then we'll be ready to
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tape this and now that it's closed up
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now we can put the packing slip on here
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so I'm going to associate the name with
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the packing slip so I know it's the
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right person again a lot of these
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e-commerce platforms they already have a
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way to get your shipping labels printed
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with all the customer information and
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everything now one thing to know about
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uh shipping labels is you can use a
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thermal printer I've got some videos
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about what type of thermal printers I
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would suggest I've always used the Rolo
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printer you can print off a lot of
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labels so if you're fulfilling and
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you're having a great month and you just
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need a lot of shipping labels printed
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then you can just use that and it comes
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with all the sticker pack for over 500
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different stickers that then you just
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feed into the feeder of that thermal
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printer you don't have to replace it
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with ink it's really easy so that's what
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I use and if you want to buy that you
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can use some of the affiliate links on
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my uh Amazon store to buy that Rolo as
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well as some other ones that I would
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suggest all right this one is all
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processed now we just need to tape it up
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and you'll just have to kind of figure
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out your method for tape I buy all this
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tape from Amazon I buy it from Staples
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all of that I do tape two sides just
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because I want to be safe so that you
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know nothing really comes into contact
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with the box and there we go there is a
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freeze dry Depot shipped product that we
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just need to now go out to the post
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office now let's do another one and I'll
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share with you the whole process here
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again this particular order had three uh
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items the two cookies and cream ice
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cream and one strawberry now if you're
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in cottage food you can do this all from
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your house also if you're in commercial
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I'm packaging all this stuff up in my
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commercial kitchen because you know it's
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it's requires uh food handling things
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like that but you can fulfill everything
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at a different location so that's what
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you just need to remember so again this
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is my larger box that I ship three to
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five products
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in and I buy my crinkle paper this is
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the packing material that I use for my
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packages and I put it right in the Box
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just a whole handful um sometimes you
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can pull the sprinkle paper apart and it
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kind of creates more volume uh and more
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of like a cushion but the reason you
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want to use packing material is because
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this is delicate product especially
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freeze-dried gummy bears freeze-dried
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gummy worms and Jolly Ranchers things
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like that uh you don't want these things
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to get crushed uh in transit so if you
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want to look at crinkle paper you can go
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to Amazon I've got links in the video
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description you can also uh go to Uline
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and there's a link in the video
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description as as well there um the
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thing about Uline is they charge a lot
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of money for shipping because it's in
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Freight so you kind of have to have a
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large order to get free shipping
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possibly from them I think it's over
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$500 something like that um or just make
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it worthwhile so that when they ship to
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you you've got a lot of product and
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that's what I used to do I'm just doing
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less volume now um than when I had seven
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freeze dryers so uh this is the this is
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the order right here see how present
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presentable this looks if you wanted to
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you could put some more crinkle paper on
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top but this is going to allow less
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movement when it's in transit now
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already I'm forgetting something I
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forgot to put my stamp of my business
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right here so let's go ahead and stamp a
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different box so we're going to stamp
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here and now we've got freeze dry
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Depot on the box now one thing that I
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didn't include on this is I didn't
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include my business card which I
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normally do I'm just waiting for the
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business cards to come in because I've
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got an event coming up and so I printed
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off more from zazzle.com where I do my
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business cards and so that's a good way
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to get more marketing into here uh for
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your business now the only thing that's
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missing right now is the shipping label
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so we just need to make sure I get the
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right person here which is right here
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this this is going to Katie Texas so
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that's the nuts and bolts of what goes
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on with my business when I'm shipping my
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freeze-dried product again what you need
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first is what are you going to put your
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product in so you need to decide whether
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you're going to do bubble packaging
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whether you're going to do boxes what
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are you going to ship the product in
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secondly is how are you going to ensure
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that that freeze-dried product that is
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very delicate is going to be going to
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that customer and arriving in its
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original state and not crushed to powder
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right you want that impression on that
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customer that you don't really know but
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purchased and trusted you to ship that
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product so find either crinkle paper
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Maybe it's peanuts maybe it's crumpled
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up uh construction paper I would make
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sure that you incur that cost in your
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business of shipping and handling
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because you don't want to have that
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customer receiving a crushed product the
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other thing you're going to need is you
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need a website or some type of platform
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to be able to process your e-commerce
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online orders I use Shopify I use Etsy
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you can check out all of my different
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links to those through my business
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freeze depot.com as well as the links in
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my YouTube channel and also you need a
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printer to print off all these so make
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sure you check out my video description
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and my Amazon store for the thermal
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printers that I use now maybe you have
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lingering questions about running a
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freeze drying business specifically
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maybe about how to package your product
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how to print off labels the right
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printers that we talked about here I've
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got a couple videos coming up next that
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are related to this type of side of
13:50
running a freeze drying business I'll
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see you there
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